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  • links for 2009-02-18

    Mind Map: Cloud Computing Players – MindMeister A good mind map of the players in cloud computing (tags: cloudcomputing mindmap)

  • links for 2009-02-16

    10 Tax Deductions Freelancers Can Make – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog (tags: advice business taxes tax jobs money entrepreneurship finance freelance freelancing deduction) This is why Richard Branson is so successful – Holy Kaw! (as in "Holy Cow!") Customer service matters, and Branson understands that. (tags: Inspiration marketing entrepreneurship…

  • Link Stream for January 28th through February 16th

    My Google Reader link stream for January 28th through February 16th: When SSBNs Collide – Obama Talks Himself Into and Out of Bank Nationalization – US Airways And Delta Duel Over The Phone For Most Incompetent Airline Ever Award [Reservations] – Twenty Theses for Government 2.0, Cluetrain Style – Safir…

  • Who says banks aren’t lending?

    Here’s a picture of the three envelopes I received in the mail from PNC yesterday: If you can’t tell from the small picture, one envelope says I qualify for an introductory APR of 0.99%, another says 1.99%, and a third was blank on the cover, but opening it revealed a…

  • Gmail Contacts finally becomes useful

    If you’re a Gmail user like me, 2008 seemed like a lost year.  Google did give us the Google Labs features, many of which were nice tweaks, but there wasn’t a significant improvement to the core application.  2009, as you know has been quite different.  We’ve seen the addition of…

  • Hey Amazon, it’s time to socialize the Kindle

    Image by MARQUINAM via Flickr Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, mostly on my Amazon Kindle.  I think it’s a great device in its current form, an will no doubt get better with the refresh that’s due out next week.  As an electronic book…

  • ReadWriteWeb discusses the state of software innovation in India

    Image via CrunchBase ReadWriteWeb recently ran a post about the state of India‘s innovation engine.  I’ve posted a clip here, but click through to read the whole thing: State of Innovation in India: 2009 – ReadWriteWeb That Big Wide-Open SaaS Opportunity Indian start-ups that dreamed of creating the next SAP…

  • Pragati interviews Nandan Nilekani of Infosys

    Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr Pragati, an online and electronic journal, is by far the most thoughtful collection of analysis on India that I’ve come across in a long time.  Back in graduate school I once had a professor tell me that the best political and economic analysis…